Improvement in manufacture of cruet-bottles



which .is the first and prima which the stopper is form or plug to tical cross-section of the stopperthe cruet and stopper when finished.

the same parts.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM POUNTNE v, or

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Specification formingspart of Letters Patent No. 56,263. dated J nly 10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I,-WILLIAM Boning? the city of Brooklyn, countyof Kings, tg of New York, machinist, have invented certafgz new and useful Improvements for' Formin and Shaping the Necks of and. Lips of Oruet Bottles and in the mold for forming the'bottlestopper; and I do hereby declare 'that the following is afnll and exact description of mysaid improvement, reference being bad to the drawings accompanying a this my specification.

My invention has reference to the forming and, producing the part of,-theneck of the cruet-bottle-which receives the stopper so as to make allof a uniform and equal size,

of my invention," thes'econd parthaving ref erence only to the construction of the mold in In the process of making the necks of the cruet-bottles as heretofore performed by glassblowers the necks have been made of various sizes,-and required a great deal of grinding and stoppering to make them fit.

"My invention is intended to obviate these difficulties by an apparatus or toolwhich shall make the necks of a uniform size and tapered to fit the stopper. I also make the peg of the stopper round, without'a seam on the sides in a cylinder bottom of a mold, with a plunger push up the stopper when pressed by a lever,all which I. accomplish in the following-described manner and: by the tool or apparatus and mold now to be described.

' In the accompanying .drawings, Figure I is a side View of -the tool orapparatus for forming the neck as it appears before being closed or shut upon the neck to form it. Fig. II is the same with the tool closed or shut upon the neck. Fig. III is an end or top view of Fig. I; Fig. IV, the same of Fig. II. Fig. V is a vermold. Fig. side or bot- Fig. VII is a side view of VI is a surface view of the under tom of the same.

" y In all the figures the same letters represent- A A, Figs. I, II, is an iron spring, bent --so as to bring the two ends near to eachother, and tempered so as to be elastic at the curve,

nd making part of.

ry object orp'art and pressthe'neckof the bot jaws o'rvformers. B B, .for which purpose they are semicircularfdr a part of their length, and the jaws are fitted into the semicircular part and fastened there by rivets. The parts A-A rne of size to be easily grasped and held in the and. These parts in Fig. I are shown 'at e and in FigL-II are pressedtogether by the the curved part being elastic, was to fly b ck to its position at rest, as in Fi when the pressure ofthe hand is relaiied.

*0 isa cross pin or rod passing through the two arms A A and having its ends turned; up with a head or upset upon a washer, so that the-two arms A A will work'freely. upon it, at the same time preventing the arms from spreading apart beyond the space desired.

of curvedpart AA, which and isheld in place by side at d, and; the opp through the rod'c, and upon the end, after passing through c, is the tapered mandrel or plunger E and lip-former G, in one piece. This plunger is made of the size and tapering shape required for the neck of the cruet. The lip former G is semicircular or convex. on the side where it joins the plunger, as seen at G, Fig. II, and the semicircular partis made of a size and shape to suit the size of theneck and lip required. Y

. The jaws B B are made concave or semicircular on their inneri'aces, as seen in Fig. 1V; B B, so that when brought together by the grasp of the hand the coucaveparts will embrace tie between them a nut on the opposite osite end of D passes and the plunger The operation of the tool or apparatusis as follows; The cruet having been blowninto form in the mold is then with the neck straight, the lips being unformed. The neck is then re-- heated to a plastic state. The workman, holding the tool in one hand, "slides with the other hand the neck of the cruet over-the plunger E and down upon the convex surface of the former G, By pressing gently the cruet upon the former G the edge or rim of the neck is the end of the former, as in Fig. VII, so as to form the cruet-mouth, and immediately that the mouth is formed the two jaws are brought together upon the neck of the cruet by the and formed toward the ends to receive the closing of thehand, and atthe same instant Aro'tary spindle, D, extends from the bottom-- it passes through,-

caused to turn up at the sides and down at a rapid rotary motion back and forth is given by the other hand to the cruet, by which the neck is formed and compressed' uponthe plunger E or mandrel and finished, and all the necks and mouths of the cruets made upon the same tool are of uniform size and-shape.

The second part of my invention consists in constructing the stopper-mold with a movable bottom or plug, Fi g; V, where HE is the mold, I the chamber in which the stopper peg is molded of the size required. K is the movable bottom or plug; L, alever hung n'nder the mold, so that by working the exterior arm of the'le'verthe interior arm will raise and lowerthe sliding bottom or plug.

The mannei-of operating is as follows: The molten glass is pressed into the chamber I so as tofill it, the sliding bottom having been first fixed in its required place. As soon as the stopper has become congealed soas to harden,

- the sliding bottom is thrown upby the lever and the stopper is thus easily removed. The sliding bottom is immediately replaced in the required position, andthe chamber again filled.

'poses described.

mouth-former G, made or united in one piece,

with the jaws B B, the saidpart G having a rotary motion'with the cruet-bottle back and tbrth, arranged and operating substantially in v the manner and for the purposes described;

- 2.- The combining and uniting the lip and month-former witht-h'e neck-former orplunger in one piece.

3. The construction of the stopper-mold with a sliding bottom, plunger, or plug to push up the stopper by pressing witha lever, combined and operating in the manner and for the pur- W. POUNTNEY. Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. FIELD,

J. B. STAPLES. 

